TIMES 'EXPOSED' (readers not told NYT's NSA story excerpted from reporter's book)

NY POST ^ | December 17, 2005 | NILES LATHEM Post Correspondent

[Liz]

WASHINGTON — The New York Times is under fire for not disclosing that a front-page story on domestic spying by the National Security Agency was excerpted from a future book by the reporter.

Media watchdogs questioned the timing of the article....

The Times said it held James Risen's story a year over White House fears of endangering ongoing probes. But what it didn't write in yesterday's article or in a follow-up statement by editor Bill Keller was that Risen had written a book scheduled to hit stores in January.

Internet columnist Matt Drudge noted that Risen turned in the manuscript for "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush administration" three months ago.

[Liz]

The NYT is under fire for not disclosing that a front-page story on domestic spying by the NSA was excerpted from a future book by the reporter.

I'm shocked, shocked (/end Claude Rains impersonation).

[goresalooza]

Rush was right, of course! Risen will have the obligatory 60 minutes push, the rounds of the Sunday morning libnut talkshows, probably a half hour of Commic and Lowder on NBC, a fake NYT "bestseller" listing and more fakery to follow. This will carrry him to all of...26 Dec, probably.

YAWN.

[Paladin2]

Properly timed for the renewal of the "Patriot" Act. How convenient.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[pissant]

The NY Times makes Al Jazeera appear credible. Pathetic.

[Liz]

MSM scum.

[kimosabe31]

NYT keeping the world safe for democrats and islamofascist jihad. These people are NOT on our side in the WOT.

[radar101]

Bout all the TIMES is anymore--a BS Story!

[upchuck]

Rush spoke at length about this on his program Friday.

Disgusting LSM.

[VOA]

The Democrats must be answering the calls for help from Zarqawi...
used to be they's hold back these exposes (book promotions) for a
Presidential campaign...(like last year)

[Brilliant]

excerpted from a future book by the reporter...




Yeah, the NYT doesn't do any original reporting. They just make it up or buy it from others who make it up.

[Grampa Dave]

As the NY Slimes, ooopsed writers spin and lie about GW and his administration, their stock value continues plumment like a vulture dying from Bird Flu.

[finnman69]

The NY Times shots itself in the foot AGAIN.

Pinch is going to feel the heat on this one.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.

[Bahbah]

The Democrats must be answering the calls for help from Zarqawi...used to be they's hold back these exposes (book promotions) for a Presidential campaign...(like last year)

Insightful comment. Bears repeating.

[TomGuy]

IIRC, the book publisher is also part of the Viacom/CBS conglomerate, so the book, when published, probably already has a prime stop on 60 Minutes.

[pleikumud]

"All The Lies That Are Fit to Print"

[CyberAnt]

I agree.

[Liz]

The NYT was slammed by a major magazine article critical of the paper's botched handling of the Miller/ Libby affair and of the publishing gonads of Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr.

There's a sense that Pinch is tone deaf and not the brightest bulb.

Ken Auletta's piece in the current edition of The New Yorker does the hit on Pinch.

"Pinch" is a derogatory nickname for Arthur Jr. His dad, Arthur Sr, is known as "Punch."


Said another NYT staffer...."The entire newspaper industry is being rocked, and the perception is that you have a guy at the top who may not have the chops to deal with it."